August 12
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
- 1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (d. 1651)
- 1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
- 1774 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
- 1831 - Helena Blavatsky, author (d. 1891)
- 1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
- 1866 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (d. 1954)
- 1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, author (d. 1958)
- 1880 - Christy Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1925)
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
- 1883 - Pauline Frederick, stage and film actress (d. 1938)
- 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist (d. 1961)
- 1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (d. 1977)
- 1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1906 - Pauline Frederick, journalist (d. 1990)
- 1906 - Tedd Pierce, animator (d. 1972)
- 1907 - Joe Besser, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)
- 1911 - Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (d. 1993)
- 1911 - Jane Wyatt, actress
- 1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
- 1924 - Derek Shackleton, Hampshire and England medium-pace bowler
- 1926 - John Derek, actor (d. 1998)
- 1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
- 1927 - Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
- 1928 - Bob Buhl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Dan Curtis, movie and television producer and director
- 1929 - Buck Owens, country and western singer
- 1930 - George Soros American businessman
- 1931 - William Goldman, screenwriter
- 1933 - Parnelli Jones, auto racer
- 1939 - George Hamilton, actor
- 1949 - Mark Knopfler, musician
- 1954 - Pat Metheny, guitarist
- 1971 - Michael Ian Black, comedian
- 1971 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
- 1972 - Rebecca Gayheart, actress
- 1972 - Takanohana Kōji, sumo wrestler (65th yokozuna)
- 1973 - Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
- 1976 - Antoine Walker, basketball player
- 1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
- 1987 - Katie Leung, acress (Cho Chang)
- 1988 - Leah Pipes, actress
Deaths
- 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor
- 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV
- 1484 - George of Trebizond, philosopher
- 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
- 1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer
- 1689 - Pope Innocent XI
- 1822 - Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquis of Londonderry, British Foreign Secretary
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and printmaker (b. 1757)
- 1848 - George Stephenson, locomotive designer
- 1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
- 1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
- 1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (b. 1836)
- 1914 - John Philip Holland, submarine designer (b. 1840)
- 1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
- 1918 - Anna Held, actress amd singer, (b. 1872)
- 1923 - Vatrslav Jagić, Croatian philologist (b. 1838)
- 1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- 1943 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857).
- 1948 - Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
- 1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, British novelist
- 1968 - Angus Walters, schooner captain
- 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor
- 1982 - Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington), singer
- 1982 - Salvador Sanchez, boxer
- 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, race car driver
- 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, singer (b. 1941)
- 1989 - William Shockley, physicist
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer
- 1997 - Luther Allison, blues musician
- 2000 - Loretta Young, actress
- 2002 - Enos Slaughter, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 2002 - Ed Headrick, developer of the Frisbee
- 2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor of computed axial tomography
- 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor
Holidays and observations
External links
August 11 - August 13 - July 12 - September 12 -- listing of all days
See also: August 12, 1099, 1323, 1332, 1484
